Victories

We hear daily from members and citizens that our leadership is desperately needed to stop corporations’ attacks on our food, our water, and our climate. We’ve never shied away from that challenge, and with your help and the assistance of our organizational allies, we’ve won some big fights against formidable opponents. Even more importantly, we’ve developed winning strategies and the people power to continue waging these fights all over the country so that one day soon, humanity’s needs will be protected over corporate greed. We’re winning, and we intend to keep it that way.

#1: Banning Fracking in New York State

Activists like actor Mark Ruffalo worked with us to avenge New Yorkers affected by fracking, leading to a statewide ban.

In New York, the oil and gas industry was targeting the sedimentary formation called Marcellus Shale for fracking — so we made it our goal to stop them. Many said it was impossible, but we didn’t listen. Along with your support and years of organizing work with hundreds of groups in the New Yorkers Against Fracking coalition, in 2014 we finally banned fracking in New York.

The mission continues — fracking pollutes our air and water and contributes to climate change. Our next goal is to ban fracking everywhere.

#2: Removing Arsenic from Animal Feed

Our advocacy for a ban on arsenic in animal feed in Maryland led to a federal ban in 2015.

Would you eat chicken or turkey that had arsenic in it? Of course not, but for decades, arsenic-based drugs were given to poultry.

People were then exposed to this arsenic that remained in the meat or ended up in the environment — an unacceptable risk to our health!

#3: Stopping Nestle Water Bottling Across the United States

Corporate power may seem unstoppable, our campaign against Nestle’s water privatization projects show that together we can win.

When big companies take water from local communities, it hurts both people and the environment.

Standing firm in our belief that water is a basic human right (and should not be used for corporate profit), we worked with broad coalitions to stop Nestlé from taking water from communities in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

As a result, we’ve proved that people can take on the world’s most powerful food and beverage company, and WIN!

#4: Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Food & Water Action was a central player in the national fight to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a global trade deal that would undermine laws that protect our food and water, and would promote more fracking.

Despite the backing of Big Business and politicians from both parties, we helped stop this controversial trade deal alongside a mighty coalition of environmental, labor, health and community organizations.

#8: Organizing the Largest Anti-Fracking March in the United States

Our organizers led the March for a Clean Energy Revolution outside the DNC in Philadelphia, July 2016. It was the largest anti-fracking action ever in the United States.

The March for a Clean Energy Revolution was the largest anti-fracking action in U.S.! On July 24, 2016, outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, over 10,000 people stood together to demand a sustainable future.

The thousands of citizens gathered outside Independence Hall sent a powerful message: the Clean Energy Revolution has already started — and together, we’ll put the country on a path to 100% clean, renewable energy!

#9: Keeping Private Companies from Controlling Water in More Than 40 U.S. Cities

When communities hand control of their water systems over to private companies, rates skyrocket (on average by 59% more), service worsens, and workers lose jobs.

We’ve fought water privatization since our founding, and working with local coalitions we’ve protected local control of water and sewer systems in dozens of communities.

#10: Stopping Over a Dozen Major Fossil Fuel Projects

Oil and gas companies will build their pipelines through your backyard. We’ve shown that people power can stop them.

Fossil fuels projects (especially ones connected to the rush to expand fracking) are poisoning our water, polluting our air, and threatening the climate on which we all depend. We need to move off fossil fuels now!

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